MSNBC Fires Its Social Media Manager For Tweet About The Cheerios Super Bowl Ad [THE BRIEF]

YouTube/CheeriosThe star of Cheerios' Super Bowl ad has a black father and white mother.

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MSNBC fired its social media manager yesterday for a tweet from the network's account about the Cheerios Super Bowl ad, which caught the attention of Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. It read: "Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad with biracial family" and then included a link.

The New York-based ad tech company Magnetic is expanding to the European market with a London office opening in coming weeks. Luke Hayter will serve as Country Manager for the United Kingdom.

David Bryant is no longer chief creative officer at Organic, owned by Omnicom. Chris Kelly, executive creative director at Organic NY, and Duane Rapp, ECD at Organic Detroit, will likely take over his duties, according to AgencySpy.

In a radio interview with WFAN, Jerry Seinfeld dismissed the rumor that his recent "Seinfeld" project was for a Super Bowl ad, or for his web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee." He did confirm, however, that a secret project is in the works, and that it involves Jason Alexander reprising his role as George Costanza and somehow involves show co-creator Larry David. Here's the clip: